It's the pressure drive mini abs I have, not road drive.
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(38 posts)- Started 9 years ago by Edinburgh Cycle Training
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Just Googled this and the abs button is supposed to prevent this happening- just have to remember to press it before unscrewing the pump. Just like I need to remember to use the quick release on the braked before I try to remove the wheel (one of my many mental blocks)...
Posted 9 years ago # -
The Road Drive will do 100psi on a 700x23 tyre. Given it's entirely constructed out of aluminium and metal, you can fair feel the thing heat up with the effort of compression.
Posted 9 years ago # -
The Topeak Road Morph pump is really good. I've had a couple for many years and they've not let me (or my tyres) down. It's rated as able to do 160 psi and has a wee pressure gauge (has to be better than the finger test). I use it for short rides and long distance audaxes. It's so easy to use you could almost dump your track pump.
I'm not sure that it's quite a mini-pump (though Wiggle does classify it as such) but it's very transportable. It would stick quite a way out of a jersey pocket but I keep mine either on the frame or in the saddle bag - saves forgetting it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I just checked and it is in fact the pressure drive not the road drive I have too. In the worst case scenario I have considered leaving the pumps flexible tube lashed to a spoke after loosing the valve core but on giving it one last try it stuck.
Next time I will know to release the pressure first.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Finally got round to testing the micro pressure drive. I'd read somewhere that the end of the chain breaker on the Lezyne sv10 multitool doubled as a valve core wrench to tighten valve cores. I tried this and it was possible to tighten the valve core further. I completely deflated the tyres- it took 300 strokes to get the 25c tyres to 80 psi, mostly pretty easy and quick but the last 100 were getting tough. Probably could have done more- not sure how many would have been needed to get to 100'ish? I guess it was >80 since that was what my main pump read once I had disconnected the minipump and attached the other pump. Pressed the abs button and unscrewed the hose from the pump before unscrewing the hose from the valve. There was a tiny hiss when i pressed the abs button. Valve core stayed put with no hint of movement.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I am done with mini pumps. Inflating a 2.5" mtb tyre ten times to get me home last week was unbelievably frustrating. From now on if I've got a pannier on the mtb, I'm carrying a long pump.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Yeah....actually, thinking about it, 80 psi isn't even the minimum recommended pressure...
Posted 8 years ago #
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